Janine Dahinden is Professor of Transnational Studies, director of the MAPS (Maison d’analyse des processus sociaux) and project leader in the nccr-on the move, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. She is interested in understanding processes of mobility, transnationalisation and boundary making, and their concomitant production of inequalities linked to ethnicity, race, class, religion or gender. She is the co-director of the Standing Committee of “Reflexivities in migration studies” of IMISCOE...

Roles

  • University of Neuchâtel

    University, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
    Professor of Transational Studies

  • University of Neuchâtel

    University, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
    Professor of Transnational Studies

Research

(Doing) belonging as technology of power: how the principle of ‘gender equality’ governs membership in Swiss society

Authors Anne Kristol, Joanna Menet, Carolin Fischer, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name Identities
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1 Journal Article

Places and mobilities: studying human movements using place as an entry point

Authors Anna Wyss, Tania Zittoun, Oliver Clifford Pedersen, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Mobilities
2 Journal Article

Placing regimes of mobilities beyond state-centred perspectives and international mobility: the case of marketplaces

Authors Janine Dahinden, Gunvor Jónsson, Joanna Menet, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Mobilities
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3 Journal Article

Gendernativism and Liberal Subjecthood: The Cases of Forced Marriage and the Burqa Ban in Switzerland

Authors Janine Dahinden, Stefan Manser-Egli
Year 2023
Journal Name Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society
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4 Journal Article

Introduction

Authors Joëlle Moret, Janine Dahinden, Apostolos Andrikopoulos
Year 2023
Book Title Cross-Border Marriages
5 Book Chapter

Alternative spatial hierarchies: a cross-border spouse's positioning strategies in the face of Germany's ‘pre-integration’ language test

Authors Shpresa Jashari, Janine Dahinden, Joëlle Moret
Year 2023
Book Title Cross-Border Marriages
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6 Book Chapter

The reconfiguration of European boundaries and borders: cross-border marriages from the perspective of spouses in Sri Lanka

Authors Janine Dahinden, Shpresa Jashari, Joëlle Moret
Year 2023
Book Title Cross-Border Marriages
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7 Book Chapter

Deterritorialized and unfinished “integration nations”?

Authors Janine Dahinden
Year 2022
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
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8 Journal Article

Culture as politics in contemporary migration contexts: the in/visibilization of power relations

Authors Janine Dahinden, Anna C. Korteweg
Year 2022
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
9 Journal Article

Disentangling entangled mobilities: reflections on forms of knowledge production within migration studies

Authors Anna Wyss, Janine Dahinden
Year 2022
Journal Name Comparative Migration Studies
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10 Journal Article

Re-producing public space: the changing everyday production of outdoor retail markets

Authors Markus Breines, Janine Dahinden, Gunvor Jónsson, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name Urban Geography
11 Journal Article

The role of mobility and transnationality for local marketplaces

Authors Joanna Menet, Janine Dahinden
Year 2022
Book Title Marketplaces
12 Book Chapter

Moving marketplaces: Understanding public space from a relational mobility perspective

Authors M. M. P. MMP, Emil Van Eck, Sophie Watson, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name Cities
Citations (WoS) 3
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13 Journal Article

Mobilities, locality and place-making: understanding categories of (non-)membership in a peripheral valley

Authors Emmanuel Charmillot, Janine Dahinden
Year 2021
Journal Name Mobilities
14 Journal Article

The conceptual limits of the ‘migration journey’. De-exceptionalising mobility in the context of West African trajectories

Authors Joris Schapendonk, Matthieu Bolay, Janine Dahinden
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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15 Journal Article

Knowledge production, reflexivity, and the use of categories in migration studies: tackling challenges in the field

Authors Janine Dahinden, Carolin Fischer, Joanna Menet
Year 2020
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
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16 Journal Article

Becoming a citizen through marriage: how gender, ethnicity and class shape the nation

Authors Anne Kristol, Janine Dahinden
Year 2019
Journal Name Citizenship Studies
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17 Journal Article

Contesting categories: cross-border marriages from the perspectives of the state, spouses and researchers

Authors Joëlle Moret, Apostolos Andrikopoulos, Janine Dahinden
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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18 Journal Article

Alternative spatial hierarchies: a cross-border spouse’s positioning strategies in the face of Germany’s ‘pre-integration’ language test

Authors Shpresa Jashari, Janine Dahinden, Joëlle Moret
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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19 Journal Article

The Car, the Hammer and the Cables under the Tables

Authors Joëlle Moret, Kerstin Dümmler, Janine Dahinden
Year 2017
Journal Name European Journal of Sociology
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20 Journal Article

Transnationalism reloaded: the historical trajectory of a concept

Authors Janine Dahinden
Year 2017
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 7
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21 Journal Article

Transnational mobility among early-career academics: gendered aspects of negotiations and arrangements within heterosexual couples

Authors Martine Schaer, Janine Dahinden, Alina Toader
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 14
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22 Journal Article

Gender representations in politics of belonging: An analysis of Swiss immigration regulation from the 19th century until today

Authors Carolin Fischer, Janine Dahinden
Year 2016
Journal Name Ethnicities
Citations (WoS) 2
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23 Journal Article

Gehören wir dazu? Grenzziehungsprozesse und Positionierungen der zweiten Generation im Vergleich zwischen Luzern und Neuenburg

Authors Kerstin Duemmler, Janine Dahinden
Year 2016
Journal Name Swiss Journal of Sociology
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24 Journal Article

Migration im Fokus? Plädoyer für eine reflexive Migrationsforschung

Authors Janine Dahinden
Year 2016
Book Title Migration und Integration – wissenschaftliche Perspektiven aus Österreich
25 Book Chapter

A plea for the ‘de-migranticization' of research on migration and integration

Authors Janine Dahinden
Year 2016
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 27
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26 Journal Article

„Kultur“ als Form symbolischer Gewalt: Grenzziehungsprozesse im Kontext von Migration am Beispiel der Schweiz

Authors Janine Dahinden
Year 2014
Book Title Kultur, Gesellschaft, Migration.
28 Book Chapter

Disentangling Religious, Ethnic and Gendered Contents in Boundary Work: How Young Adults Create the Figure of ‘The Oppressed Muslim Woman’

Authors Janine Dahinden, Kerstin Duemmler, Joelle Moret
Year 2014
Journal Name Journal of Intercultural Studies
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29 Journal Article

Religion in Meaning Making and Boundary Work: Theoretical Explorations

Authors Janine Dahinden, Tania Zittoun
Year 2013
Journal Name Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
30 Journal Article

German Muslims and the ‘Integration Debate’: Negotiating Identities in the Face of Discrimination

Authors Peter Holtz, Janine Dahinden, Wolfgang Wagner
Year 2013
Journal Name Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
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31 Journal Article

Von den transnationalen Migrationsstudien zu einer Transnationalisierung der Sozialtheorie: Plädoyer für einen integrativen Ansatz

Authors Janine Dahinden
Year 2013
Book Title Transnationale Migration am Beispiel Deutschland und Türkei
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32 Book Chapter

Transnational Belonging, Non-ethnic Forms of Identification and Diverse Mobilities: Rethinking Migrant Integration?

Authors Janine Dahinden
Year 2012
Book Title Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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33 Book Chapter

Introduction: Linking Gender and Religion

Authors ANNA-KATHARINA HÖPFLINGER, ANNE LAVANCHY, JANINE DAHINDEN
Year 2012
Journal Name Women's Studies
34 Journal Article

Cities, Migrant Incorporation, and Ethnicity: A Network Perspective on Boundary Work

Authors Janine Dahinden
Year 2011
Journal Name Journal of International Migration and Integration
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36 Journal Article

Die Herstellung sozialer Differenz unter der Bedingung von Transnationalisierung

Authors Janine Dahinden, Joëlle Moret, Kerstin Duemmler
Year 2011
Book Title Jugend, Migration und Religion
37 Book Chapter

Identity Processes and Dynamics in Multi-Ethnic Europe

Year 2010
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39 Journal Article

Deconstructing Mythological Foundations of Ethnic Identities and Ethnic Group Formation: Albanian-Speaking and New Armenian Immigrants in Switzerland

Authors Janine Dahinden
Year 2007
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 11
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41 Journal Article

Migrations : genre et frontières – frontières de genre

Authors Janine Dahinden, Magdalena Rosende, Natalie Benelli, ...
Year 2007
Journal Name Nouvelles Questions Féministes
42 Journal Article

Contesting transnationalism? Lessons from the study of Albanian migration networks from former Yugoslavia

Authors JANINE DAHINDEN
Year 2005
Journal Name Global Networks
Citations (WoS) 40
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43 Journal Article

What Is the Nexus between Migration and Mobility? A Framework to Understand the Interplay between Different Ideal Types of Human Movement

Authors Lorenzo Piccoli, Matteo Gianni, Didier Ruedin, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name Sociology
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44 Journal Article

Cross-Border Marriages

Authors Joëlle Moret, Janine Dahinden, Apostolos Andrikopoulos
Year 2023
45 Book

Revisiting Borders and Boundaries: Exploring Migrant Inclusion and Exclusion from Intersectional Perspectives

Authors Carolin Fischer, Christin Achermann, Janine Dahinden
Year 2020
Journal Name MIGRATION LETTERS
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46 Journal Article

The Reconfiguration of European Boundaries and Borders: Cross-border Marriages from the Perspective of Spouses in Sri Lanka

Authors Janine Dahinden, Joëlle Moret, Shpresa Jashari
Year 2020
Journal Name MIGRATION LETTERS
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47 Journal Article

S witzerland

Authors Janine Dahinden
Year 2015
Journal Name The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
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48 Journal Article

Albanian‐speaking migration, mid‐19th century to present

Authors Janine Dahinden
Year 2013
Journal Name The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration
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49 Journal Article

Suggested Research

Migration im Fokus?Plädoyer für eine reflexive Migrationsforschung

Authors Janine Dahinden
Book Title Migration und Integration – wissenschaftliche Perspektiven aus Österreich
1 Book Chapter

Qualitative network analysis for migration studies: Beyond metaphors and epistemological pitfalls

Authors Louise Ryan, Janine Dahinden
Year 2021
Journal Name Global Networks
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2 Journal Article
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